Cleaning and polishing composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

HENRY r. NICHOLS AND CLEMENT a. FREEIDE, or sr oxANE, wAsHINeroN.

CLEANING AND POLISHING coMPos-ITIoN.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY T. NICHOLS and CLEMENT R. Fnnnon, citizens of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of l/Vashing ton, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cleaning and Polishing Compositions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in polishes.

It is one of the objects of this invention to provide a polish which will serve to clean a surface as well as to impart a polishing luster thereto, and in this connection, it is a feature of this invention to incorporate in the composition of our improved polish, a cleaning agent of a character that will sub stantially completely evaporate after it is applied to such surface. An important feature of our invention, in the combination claimed, resides in employing a cleaning agent which functions in the dual capacity as such and also as a solvent.

A further feature of the invention consists in providing a polish composed of ingredients having the same basic properties, the one acting as a polish and the other as the solvent and cleaning agent. In this connection, it is a feature of our invention to use ingredients having such an active aflinity to combine that the polish will be ready for use almost immediately after it is prepared and will not have to be stored to allow the same to settle in order to form a finished mixture.

Specifically speaking, our composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: part refined crude oil, part gasolene.

The refined crude oil employed has the general consistency and character of crude oil but is much lighter in color, being white or straw color. Oil of this character is known by the trade designation Collar fuel 14+. I

These ingredients are simply mixed, and in these preferred proportions, the action of the gasolene serves to thin the oil so that when the polish is applied to a surface the oil will not gum the surface but will cover the same with a film which is imperceptible except for the polishing luster imparted thereto. As the polish is applied to the sub i Specification of Letters Patent. Patented De 14, 192() Application filed July 23, 1919. Serial No. 312,825.

face, the gasolene forms a most active and effective cleaning agent so that after the surface is polished it is absolutely free from dirt and grit. The gasolene thereupon begms to evaporate leaving the oil in a thin film on the surface. A lighter oil than that used would not have the initial properties, after being thinned by the gasolene, of providing sullicient body to form a durable polishing film on a surface and while we use a relatively heavy oil, we thin it with a solvent of gasolene sutficiently to prevent the oil from gumming but not sufliciently to impair those properties of the oil which lend fdprability and longevity to the polishing It is due in great measure to the fact that the gasolene and oil have the same properties, and to some extent the same constituents, that they so readily and easily combine to form a practically homogenous fluid which does not have to be shaken when used and which remains homogenous even after standing for a long period.

Successive applications of the polish appear to build up a coating on the surface as the oil appears to fill the interstices, after several applications, and not being an evaporating substance, the oil appears to build up a surface over the varnish which serves to impart all the appearance of newness to the article treated.

So far as we are aware, the oil does not dry and harden and therefore our improved polish may be termed flexible and can readily be applied to finish metallic parts which are capable of indenture without in any way cracking or otherwise impairing the condition of the surface polish. This would not be true of such a substance as beeswax for instance, and many other substances which not only harden when they dry. but which are inherently incapable of being applied in the form of a polishing film of imperceptible thickness.

Ne have very successfully employed our polish not only on wood articles having dif ferent characters of finish, such as furniture of different quality, as one extreme, and pianos, as another extreme, and in all of these utilities, including metal surfaces, the results have been highly satisfactory.

What we claim is 1.- A polishing liquid composition for cleaning and polishing painted and Var- 2. A polishing liquid composed of twonished surfaces consisting of gasolene and thirds part gasolene and one-third part oil.

a mineral oil combined in substantially the In testimony that We claim the foregoing 10 proportions stated, the oil being thinned by as our own, We hereby aflix our signatures. the gasolene sniiiciently to leave a thin polishing film on the surface,and the gasolene HENRY T. NICHOLS.

acting additionally as a cleaning agent. CLEMENT R. FREEDE. 

